Woman receives probation, jail for her role in hiding body after shooting death

Meichelle Goss (right), whose testimony in January at her boyfriend’s trial contributed to his conviction for the shooting death of Jesse Faber near Marshall last year, will spend time in jail in part to remember Faber’s birth and death, a judge ordered Monday.

Three men were arrested Friday night after allegedly firing dozens of blue paintballs at people and a business near East Towne Mall, with nobody hurt in the attacks.

Rodney Jordan, 21, Middleton, Demetrius Staffney (above), 18, Edgerton, and Carlton Jones, 28,Chicago, were arrested on the Beltline near Stoughton Road, with two paintball guns, 500 blue paintballs and several bags of crack cocaine found in the car.

Three men were arrested Friday night after allegedly firing dozens of blue paintballs at people and a business near East Towne Mall, with nobody hurt in the attacks.

Rodney Jordan, 21, Middleton, Demetrius Staffney, 18, Edgerton, and Carlton Jones (above), 28,Chicago, were arrested on the Beltline near Stoughton Road, with two paintball guns, 500 blue paintballs and several bags of crack cocaine found in the car.

A man wanted for homicide in Illinois was arrested early Saturday morning in Dane County, during what police called a high-risk traffic stop.

Eddie Mentgen, 37, Chicago, was taken into custody by the State Patrol at about 1 a.m. Saturday after being stopped at the Edgerton Travel Plaza on Haugan Road near the Interstate 39/90 and Highway 51 interchange in the town of Albion, the Sheriff's Office said.

Indicted only about 40 days ago on charges that he coerced a 14-year-old Tennessee girl to make child pornography and that he lied to the FBI, a Madison man now faces charges that he took the girl across state lines for sexual purposes.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday issued a superseding indictment that added the new charges against Bryan Rogers, 31, who was arrested on Jan. 31 after investigators found the girl, who had been reported missing from her home in Madisonville, Tennessee, in the basement of Rogers’ mother’s house on Madison’s North Side.

Woman charged with abuse for injuries to infant

The mother of a 7-week-old girl was charged Wednesday with child abuse and neglect after she brought the girl to a hospital last month where the girl was found to have burns, broken ribs and leg fractures that doctors said were caused by abuse, court documents state.

A criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court charged Anne E. Christian, 34, of Madison, with three counts of child abuse with a high probability of causing great bodily harm, along with one count of felony child neglect. The girl’s father, Zachary A. Schenk, 34, was charged with one count of felony child neglect.